A new report from the Yale University-Resilient Cities Network and the Global Nation think tank finds that more than a third of the world's cities have failed to prepare for the effects of climate change, including rising sea levels, droughts, and flooding, the New York Times reports.
The report, which surveyed 191 city and civil society leaders in 52 countries, found that almost half the world's cities didn't have plans in place to deal with the effects of climate change.
"We need to stay focused on our way of adapting our way of this problem because we can't adapt our way of this problem," says Naveen Rao, president of the Yale-Resilient Cities Foundation, which is working with Brazil's health ministry to develop plans for cities around the world.
The report found that almost half the world's cities don't have plans in place to deal with the effects of climate change, and many don't even have plans at all for dealing with the consequences of it.
For example, the report found that almost half of the world's cities don't have plans to prevent the spread of Zika, and many don't even have plans to prevent the spread of measles, which is expected to kill more than
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